Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

11 March

Jeremiah 29:11-14

For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me, says the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

Jesus, my God, l adore You

Jesus, my God, l adore You,

here present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar,

where You wait day and night to be our comfort 

while we await Your unveiled presence in heaven.

Jesus, my God,

I adore You in all places 

where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved 

and where sins are committed 

against this Sacrament of Love.

Jesus, my God,

I adore You for all time,

past, present and future,

for every soul that ever was,

is or shall be created.

Jesus, my God,

who for us has endured hunger and cold,

labour and fatigue,

I adore You.

Jesus, my God, who for my sake

has deigned to subject Yourself

to the humiliation of temptation,

to the perfidy and defection of friends,

to the scorn of Your enemies,

I ADORE YOU..... Amen!

A Future Not Our Own

In memory of Oscar Romero (1917–1980) 

It helps now and then to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection, no pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water the seeds already planted knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realising this.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.

~ * ~ Bishop Ken Untener (1937–2004) ~ * ~

Past, Present & Future

ACCEPT you PAST without regrets.

Handle you PRESENT with CONFIDENCE.

And FACE your FUTURE without FEAR.

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The longer you live in the past, 

the less future you have to enjoy.

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No amount of guilt can change the past 

and no amount of worrying can change the future.

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If you are depressed, you are living in the past. 

If you are anxious, you are living the future. 

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

~ Lao Tzu ~

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Yesterday is history. 

Tomorrow is a mystery. 

Today is a gift. 

That’s why we call it the present.

~ Bil Keane ~